Saturday, May 02, 2015

Ruth Rendell, R. I. P.

Author Ruth Rendell dies aged 85: She wrote more than 60 novels in a career spanning 50 years, her best-known creation being Inspector Wexford, which was turned into a highly successful TV series.

3 comments:

Deb said...

One of the greats--and I think she was still publishing. First P.D. James, now Ruth Rendell (aka, Barbara Vine). Two modern Queens of Mystery gone. R.I.P.

Jeff Meyerson said...

Neither was exactly young, but they were both still writing. At one point - well, two points, the mid-1970s and then again in the 1990s - I was reading a lot of her books one after the other. The last was a group of all of her short story collections. I still have a few of the Wexfords to catch up on.

Jeff

George said...

I met Ruth Rendell at the Philly BOUCHERCON. She told me her favorite writer was Henry James. Like Jeff, I'm behind on the Wexfords.